WTF

I'm beginning to feel as though moving here was a horrible, horrible decision.

I mean, I know everything about a move doesn't automatically go smoothly, but come ON. Lately every last little thing is going wrong. The phone company made the worst transition ever with my service. The previous residents were apparently horrible trashdwelling pigs that left all sorts of problems that I keep finding (although the leasing office has been great about addressing them, this is true).

...and the latest nail in my coffin comes from the energy company. I was happily a customer of Austin Energy for the entire time I lived at my prior residence. Their rates are extremely reasonable and I never had a problem with billing or getting service response when necessary. Now my options are all companies that charge a heck of a lot more (twice the rate, actually), and when I got my first full month bill - no, not full month, only 29 days - for almost twice what I was paying the old utility company I about choked. I knew that my bills would go up from having a larger place (not to mention having a washer and dryer here) and that the rate I signed up for was slightly higher --- but they are charging me significantly higher than what I thought I agreed to. After talking to multiple unhelpful "not my department, let me transfer you" type weenies, I finally get to a customer service answering machine with a message - "due to high call volumes, please leave your name and number and we will call you back." No estimated time, nothing. I have high hopes for this one, I tell ya.

Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch. I need a drink.

And...finito!

Bathroom Rug
Originally uploaded by Cyndiva.

Here's the "professional" photo of the finished rug, in it's final resting place. I haven't yet put the rug gripping tape on the underside of it, but I am going to run it through the wash once first, then place the tape. I might use something else for gripping though, since I am not sure that the gripping tape is washable...and this rug will certainly hit the wash more than once in its lifetime.

For whatever reason, the two blog entries I sent over from my PDA phone never made it - this rug was completed yesterday afternoon, so in plenty of time to qualify for the Ravelympics entry. Now to head over there and post the results. :D

Going for gold

The rug, she is done! Here's a teaser photo from the cellphone - I'll get a good shot with the big camera later tonight. -- Cynthia

Hrm....

I posted from my cell yesterday but it never showed up... Shame, that. I suppose I'll have to redo it and take real pics instead of the cheesy PDA cam. Ah well.

The Olympics are almost over and I may (MAY) just finish my Ravelympics project on time. Between spending time with a friend who had her first child and work stuff, not to mention still trying to get the new place in some semblance of order (oh, it's getting there, it just takes more time than I really thought it would) I haven't done nearly as much on this rug as I'd thought --- and I picked a fast crochet thinking that I could finish it off in an evening or two. To be fair, most of it was done in a couple pretty quick hunks of time -- and then it languished -- and then I picked it up and rushed through a bit more -- and then it languished -- and so on. I've only got the outside edge to finish now, plus weaving in the ends. Once that is done I think I am going to toss it in the washer on HOT to shrink it a teeny bit, since it is 100% cotton, as it is a bit looser than I'd wanted even if I did go down 4mm in hook size. What can I say, I am a loose hooker.

Pics to come later when I finally get my camera down - not much later though, since the deadline is looming!

I has a sofa

Woo! I is a big gurl now. Ok, enough with the lolcats speak-- but I am really happy with my new sofa. Much happier than when I bought it, even. It's bigger than it looked in the store...

In which she learns to spellcheck

Sometimes those fingers move faster than the eyes. One of these days I'll learn to double-check before hitting the post button on a site, especially when I don't always get the option to edit. At any rate, I finally got around to running a Wordle cloud on my Flickr photostream, and here it is:




What are you waiting for - get over there and have fun!